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Collabforge’s Future Melbourne project redefined public participation in city planning. The process behind this award winning wiki-based collaborative city plan has since been tuned and refined into a service package that is ready for implementation in your city or town. To inquire about our services, fill out our contact form today. “Could this be the future of public participation?”On September 18th, 2009 Collabforge Founder and Director, Dr. Mark Elliott, presented a webcast to the American Planning Association entitled Creating a [...]

Collabforge is proud to announce the publication of our article: Collaborating with the crowd for better policy development (Elliott, Sharp & Cooperrider) in the Australian journal InSight by the Centre for Policy Development. This InSight, which has also doubled as a submission to the Taskforce, unpacks the ‘Government 2.0′ concept for the non-geeks out there, as well as featuring some hot new ideas for those who are already in the thick of it. Upgrading Democracy and unpacking Gov2.0 As the [...]

NSW Public Sphere just wrapped up in Sydney (4 Sept) and brought together a range of speakers to discuss how trends in Government 2.0 can improver service delivery in NSW. Collabforge was pleased to see ACT consultant Matthew Hodgson’s video open the day’s proceedings, especially given the reference to the Future Melbourne project. The video presents an entertaining summary of Governments’ use of online services over the last decade and looks at the current evolution taking place through social media, [...]